2026학년도 수능 영어 빈칸 변형 (30-42번)

Situational ethics is an ethical theory that takes into account the context of a situation or an act when judging whether it is ____

Supporters of this theory willingly permit casting ____ absolute moral standards.

In the absence of a universal standard or law, what matters is the outcome or consequences; ____ the end justifies the means.

Possibly the following contrasting realities can help illustrate the ____ of situational ethics.

In a pickup game of basketball played among friends, everyone is expected to call his or ____ own fouls or acknowledge knocking the ball out-of-bounds.

Caring about one’s friends and maybe getting to keep playing with the group leads to these ____

But, once an organized game is played with officials, most athletes will not admit to the same fouls or violations as the end goal of winning is more important ____ expressing concern for competitors.

Situational ethics has been extended by many athletes and coaches to mean trying to get away with as many actions on the field or ____ as possible to gain competitive advantages.

The early grain trade firms were active in both surplus-producing and food deficit regions, ____ these firms made it their business to know the state of supply and demand in both.

Because this information was the key to their profitability, these firms worked in relative secrecy, frequently built on family ____ trust, and loyalty.

In addition, these firms were able to benefit ____ the rise of commodity exchanges and commodities futures markets that emerged in the mid-1800s.

Agricultural markets are naturally unstable, due to changes in harvest ____ that result from variable weather patterns and other factors.

Locking-in prices by buying and selling grain for future delivery helped these firms to ____ such risks.

It made sense for the grain trading companies to manage their risks within a single firm that was operating in more than one country, rather than operating as independent national companies trading with each ____

Their access to information in ____ markets enabled them to easily cover the risks associated with agricultural commodity trade.

The basic guidelines for good style are not mysterious; in fact, you ____ them every day in conversation.

In conversation and in writing, we all rely heavily on cooperation to make sense of exchanges, and a polished practical ____ makes cooperation easier.

Writers develop such a style by acknowledging ____ readers expect the same things that listeners expect in conversation: clarity, relevance, and proportion.

If ____ listen to someone who is not clear, who cannot stay on the topic, or who offers too much or too little information, you will quickly lose interest in the conversation.

Writers, too, need to be clear, stay on the ____ and give information appropriately.

In fact, this attention to audience and appropriateness may be even more important in writing than in conversation because writing does not ____ the nonverbal communication and immediate feedback that are part of conversation.

As writers, we have to anticipate the ____ reader’s response ; in effect, we have to imagine both halves of a virtual conversation.

Giving clients sufficient opportunity to react to ____ designs while in progress is a key to professional success.

Similarly, involving prospective building users as well ____ clients is even more valuable in the long run.

Say your client ____ a large corporation, such as a health care provider.

While the hospital administration may serve as your client, no doubt the perspectives of administration personnel will differ significantly from those of doctors, interns, residents, nurses, and other medical staff who use the building ____

In addition, the ____ of patients and visitors who use the building irregularly, often as a result of life-threatening emergencies, are altogether different as well.

Understanding how each type of user experiences the current medical environment as well as ____ each reacts to your prospective designs inevitably produces a better building.

People are likely to be more satisfied ____ a new building or addition if they have been consulted in the design process.

For a large institution, this can ____ into increased productivity on the job, reduced absenteeism, less turnover, and lower costs.

Kant was a strong defender of the rule of law as the ultimate ____ not only of security and peace, but also of freedom.

He believed that human societies were moving towards more rational forms regulated by effective and binding legal frameworks because only such frameworks enabled people to live in harmony, to prosper and to ____

However, his belief in inevitable progress was not based on an ____ or high-minded view of human nature.

On the contrary, it comes close to Hobbes’s outlook: man’s violent and conflict-prone nature makes it necessary to establish and maintain an effective legal framework in order ____ secure peace.

We cannot count on people’s benevolence or goodwill, but even ‘a nation of devils’ can live in harmony ____ a legal system that binds every citizen equally.

Ideally, the ____ is the embodiment of those political principles that all rational beings would freely choose.

If such laws forbid them to do something that they ____ not rationally choose to do anyway, then the law cannot be understood as a restraint on their freedom.

There ____ few of us who don’t at least want to make time for self-care activities such as exercise, hobbies, or relaxation.

We start each day with the best of intentions but ____ get stuck by the flood of email messages or pulled into an unexpected meeting.

As we struggle to reprioritize so we can get everything done before our deadlines, often our self-care activities are the first thing ____ be given up.

No matter how much we plan, we all occasionally ____ days when that happens.

In the short term, ____ impact of missing that grant deadline may be greater than the impact of missing a woodworking class.

But it’s important to recognize ____ cumulative impact of not prioritizing self-care and to make sure that in the long term, this is the exception rather than the norm.

We usually think of a clock as a physical thing, like ____ alarm clock or a wristwatch.

But a clock is really a process embodied in a machine, and the nature of ____ process is repetitive.

____ clock can be almost any process that repeats itself over and over again for an indefinite period.

Water clocks drip at a ____ pace; quartz crystals vibrate regularly.

Indeed, it is almost impossible to think ____ a clock that does not depend on a repetitive cycle of events.

The only ____ that comes to mind readily is a candle marked in hours.

But here too there is iteration ― the repeated burning of molecules of wax ____ so this too is an iterative process, although at first masked.

The use of radiocarbon dating is another, much longer scale clock ____ also appears to be like this.

It seems to yield a smooth time scale but in fact does not: the decay of atoms of carbon-14 is repetitive, although ____ a large scale it gives the appearance of being continuous.

Philosophy allows us ____ ask much broader questions than many other scientific disciplines.

It is capable of looking at the bigger picture and providing important insights into the relationships ____ different areas of knowledge.

Philosophy is particularly important for the interdisciplinary efforts of cognitive science, where it helps to bridge gaps between different disciplines and pioneer new ways ____ research.

Unlike scientific methods, philosophizing is a non-empirical approach that attempts to validate ____ through logical thinking and argumentation.

Philosophers tend to ask questions rather than provide definitive answers, and their contributions ____ consist of challenging established assumptions and proposing new research approaches.

____ for a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of consciousness, close collaboration between philosophy and neuroscience is required.

This means that while philosophy can provide valuable insights into theoretical concepts and broader ethical questions, it needs to be supplemented by empirical findings and experiments to reach a more ____ understanding.

While stories clearly dominate ____ from both memorability and persuasiveness perspectives, it’s rarely a battle between facts and anecdotes ― or even facts and other facts.

The real clash is actually between stories: the predominant incumbent and a ____ challenger.

As storytelling creatures, we routinely form narratives to help us understand the world around ____

When we experience different events or encounter various ____ our minds seek to make sense of them by forming stories around them.

For example, if you have had some ____ experiences with graduates from a particular university, you may create a negative narrative in your mind about people who went to that school.

Suddenly, ____ judge everyone from the university by what you’ve experienced on just a few unfortunate occasions.

Sometimes these internal narratives we form not only shape our beliefs and opinions but also become deeply rooted ____ our identity.

For example, the narratives you have formed around gun control or climate change are most likely related with ____ political ideology ― who you are as an individual.

A video game has its own model of reality, internal to itself and separate from the player’s external reality, the player’s bodily ____ and the avatar’s bodily space.

The avatar’s bodily space, the potential actions of the avatar in the game world, is the only way ____ which the reality of the external reality of the game world can be perceived.

As in ____ real world, perception requires action.

The difference is that the action in the game world can only be ____ through the virtual bodily space of the avatar.

Players ____ their perceptual field into the game, encompassing the available actions of the avatar.

The feedback loop of perception and action that enables you to navigate the world around you is now one step removed: instead of perceiving primarily through interaction of your own body with the ____ world, you’re perceiving the game world through interaction of the avatar.

The ____ perceptual system has been extended into the game world.

In modern societies, the performing arts form a distinct category of public entertainment in opposition to the mass distribution through the media of expertly staged performances which ____ been recorded and edited.

By contrast, theater, ballet, circus, concert, rodeo, storytelling, etc., unfold their signs ____ real space and time, and engage audiences who respond cognitively and emotionally on the spot.

Performers and audiences are ____ in shared enjoyment.

But ____ frustration occurs within the boundaries of such ritualistic events.

In industrialized and computerized cultures, the performing arts become economically unstable because the institutions which sustain ____ increasingly depend on public and corporate funding.

However, they retain their power of fascination for large, if not massive audiences, who prize the experiential, risk-loaded and one-time event ____ they afford.

In traditional and local cultures, performances still survive and provide their audiences with a unique fulfillment in smaller scale, economically ____ institutional settings.

In a situation of financial challenges due to reliance on external funding, the performing arts, which provide unique ____ live experiences, secure audiences who value those experiences.

There is an obvious problem with the history ____ dress in all of its displays and that is, although textiles survive from early periods and cultures of recorded history, actual garments do not provide an uninterrupted flow of evidence across the same long time-span.

Therefore, to give ____ study of dress equal significance to other areas such as architecture, painting, prints, drawings and sculpture, it was inevitable that these other areas would provide much of the source material.

The history of surviving dress really only starts in the 17th century, and like all artefacts described as fine or decorative art, ____ a highly visual subject.

However, unlike most of ____ categories of collection and study that make up those areas, it is fluid rather than static.

Garments should be seen in movement on a human body, not frozen on a display ____

This is one of the many difficulties ____ curating collections of costume and also why some modern writers find costume collections physically and intellectually lifeless.

Fortunately, in the period after 1660, when more items of dress ____ to enrich our understanding of the history of the subject, there are also many painted, printed, photographed and filmed sources of evidence of people in clothing, caught in movement.

Often a variety of different types of ____ examples will provide evidence about how a garment was worn within the period in which it was made.

Without the information contained in art in ____ of its forms, from drawing to sculpture, it is likely that displays of historic dress would be awkward imitations of the intentions of their original makers and owners.